Breaches and Hacks Archive
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 2019 has continued a growing upwards trend of cyber crime, but Bitdefender has revealed just how extensive the threat is. Its Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2019 revealed that 24% of organisations suffered a breach in the first half of the …
A hospital in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany has been fined €105,000 by the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Rhineland-Palatine (LfDI).
The numbers don’t tell the full story this month. There may have been 1.34 billion breached records disclosed, but almost all of them came from a single incident of ambiguous origin.
Likewise, there were an abnormally high number of incidents in which the organisation didn’t reveal the number of …
It was a mixed bag this month in terms of cyber attacks and data breaches. On the one hand, the 421,103,896 data records that were confirmed to have been compromised represents about half of the monthly average.
September may have fewer data breach incidents than the previous month, but overall there was a massive 363% increase, totalling 531,596,111 breached records. This number includes a whopping 419 million data records exposed from an unknown server and brings the …
Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) this week imposed a PLN 2.8 million (€645,000) fine on online retailer Morele.net for “insufficient organisational and technical safeguards”.
An Post has notified the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of a breach affecting 250 customers. An email sent to customers about the move of the AddressPal service from one post office in Cork to another accidentally had all 250 recipients’ email addresses in the ‘To’ field rather than 249 of them being in the ‘Bcc’ (blind carbon copy) field. This meant every customer who received the email could see …
The cyber attacks and 114,686,290 breached records in August 2019 is infinitesimal compared to last month’s total and about 10% of the monthly average.
July 2019 was one of the worst months ever from a cyber security perspective. With incidents like the massive breach at the Chinese tech supplier Orvibo and another leaked database filled with Evite customers’ personal details, the second half of the year began with a mammoth 2,226,042,039 breached records.
Haga Hospital, based in the Netherlands, was this week fined €460,000 by the Dutch data protection authority (AP) for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Haga was investigated by the AP after 85 hospital employees had access to the medical records of Samantha de Jong, AKA Barbie, a well-known Dutch reality TV star.
